Maven - Add directory to classpath while executing tests

Question

The Junits I have in my project need to load property files from the classpath. How can I specify the directory of those property files so that Maven will set that in the cl

Answer 1

You can use the build-helper-maven-plugin to specify additional test-resource directories as follows. Using the configuration below, the contents of the test-resources directory will be copied to the target/test-classes directory during the generate-test-sources phase:

  org.codehaus.mojo
  build-helper-maven-plugin
  1.12
  
    
      add-test-resource
      generate-test-sources
      
        add-test-resource
      
      
        
          
            path/to/additional/test/resources
            
              **/folder-to-exclude/**